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When Words Collide 2016

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Sun, 08/14/2016 - 13:00 - 14:00

On Sunday, August 14th I'll be participating in a panel discussion during theWhen Words Collide Literary Festival. Here are the details:

Creating a Language or Dialect for Your Alien CharacterC.S. MacCath, Jane Ann MacLachlan, Swati Chavda, Claire McCague
Did Star Wars get it right? Yoda switches word order. Chewbacca grunts. Jar Jar Binks is unintelligible. Or are there better ways to demopnstrate through dilogue that your alien characters are from out of this world?

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If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your garage that'll outwit the gadgets used by the authorities.